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• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  High-growth companies selected for government Future Fifty programme

  The first high-growth UK companies have been chosen for the government’s Future Fifty fast-track programme.

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Computer science graduates struggle to find work despite IT skills shortage

  Despite an IT skills gap, the UK’s recent computer science graduates are the largest group of unemployed graduates

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Spanish bank La Caixa looks to startups for innovation

  La Caixa is looking for ways to innovate in an increasingly competitive environment, and is turning to startups for new and niche technologies

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  NHS to replace NPfIT Spine system with open-source technology

  The NHS is rebuilding its Spine platform using open source software

• October 02, 2013 02 Oct'13

  Tesco profits drop despite multichannel shopping

  Tesco's pre-tax profits fell 24% to £1.39bn over the first half of its financial year despite adopting multichannel shopping technology

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  Interview: Martin Russell, head of IT services, Just Eat

  Just Eat's head of IT services, Martin Russell speaks to Computer Weekly about his experiences of switching to Google

• August 12, 2013 12 Aug'13

  ICO to investigate London bins that track smartphones

  Information Commissioner's Office is making enquiries into bins in London that track passing smartphones to target advertising to owners

• August 08, 2013 08 Aug'13

  Bloomberg signs up to Ubuntu Edge hybrid

  Financial analytics service Bloomberg has bought into Mark Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu One vision for a hybrid PC/mobile device.

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  GDS tracks 'digital by default' progress of top 25 government services

  Government Digital Service (GDS) launches website to track progress of the 25 services targeted as the first to go online under the digital strategy

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  Mark Hall may quit Whitehall after being snubbed for HMRC CIO role

  Mark Hall, the acting CIO at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has not been given the job full-time and may quit government

• July 02, 2013 02 Jul'13

  Senior MPs flout EU cookie law

  Two years after the EU cookie regulation and UK law came into force, not all UK websites are compliant, including the sites of 13 senior MPs

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Steve Monaghan, IT & e-commerce director, Waterstones

  After a year of turmoil caused by migration away from HMV, the IT team at Waterstones is finally finding room to think about strategy

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Contactless payments exceed five million in March

  Some 5.3 million contactless transactions totalling over £39m were made in March 2013 using Visa contactless cards

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  BMW outsources web platform roll-out to Accenture

  German car manufacturer BMW has contracted Accenture to manage the implementation of its new web platform

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  UK online businesses neglect mobile strategy

  Online businesses are failing to implement mobile strategies, according to a report from Barclays bank

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Yahoo buys UK teenager’s app for £18m

  Yahoo has acquired Summly – an app created by a UK teenager – for £18m, making him one of the world’s youngest self-made millionaires

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  Government mandates 'preference' for open source

  The government has, for the first time, mandated a preference for using open source for future developments

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  John Lewis drops virtual mirror project as part of ‘fail fast at innovation' strategy

  John Lewis has canned its virtual mirror project as part of the company’s approach to ‘failing fast at innovation’

• March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

  Majestic Wine swaps Microsoft for Intershop in ecommerce refresh

  Majestic Wine is revamping its website with an InterShop 7 ecommerce engine, which replaces a legacy Microsoft Commerce Server system.

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Are CIOs losing relevance or will they just change their spots?

  The CIO is an evolving role and changes in technology and budgets, mean it is shifting more towards governance

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  UK teams up with Estonia to develop digital public services

  The UK government has signed an agreement with Estonia to work together on developing digital public services

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  ISPs in the US join forces to serve “six strikes” to illegal downloaders

  Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the US are leading a campaign to target piracy using a “six strike” warning system

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Google penalises Interflora and UK newspapers for failing to comply with SEO regulations

  The website for Interflora has disappeared from Google search pages, amid accusations the company has manipulated links

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  GDS must not become an outlier, warns Martha Lane Fox

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) must not remain an outlier to the way the public sector delivers online services, says Martha Lane Fox

• January 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  Morrisons sees poor sales due to lack of online presence

  Supermarket chain Morrisons posted “disappointing” sales over the Christmas break, due to the retailer’s lack of online presence.

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  Poor design hampers gamification in the enterprise, says Gartner

  By 2014, 80% of current gamified applications will fail to meet business objectives, primarily because of poor design, according to Gartner

• November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12

  First departmental sites move to Gov.uk

  Two government departments have migrated onto the Gov.uk site, as part of the first moves to bring all departmental information under a single domain.

• October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  ACPO use online crime reporting company

  The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and charity Crimestoppers is using online self-reporting platform Facewatch, designed to reduce low-level crime.

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  CIO interview: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games

  As the job of a lifetime nears its end, London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his Olympic experience

• October 17, 2012 17 Oct'12

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) launches Gov.uk website

  Gov.uk is intended to become a single domain for online public services replacing hundreds of departmental sites

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  Lamborghini slashes web costs with Amazon Web Services

  Supercar maker Lamborghini has revamped and accelerated the performance of its website by running it on Amazon Web Services

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  Gartner: Businesses need to prepare now for HTML5

  Businesses have been urged to prepare for the arrival of HTML5, the technology that underpins the next generation of the web

• September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12

  GOV.UK to replace Directgov in October

  Government information services website Directgov is to be replaced by GOV.UK from 17 October

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Liverpool FC moves to the cloud with Amazon Web Services

  Liverpool FC has migrated its website to a public cloud using Amazon Web Services

• September 07, 2012 07 Sep'12

  Interview: Channel 4 CIO on the IT behind the broadcasting of the Paralympic Games

  The Paralympic Games was the largest live broadcast undertaking for Channel 4, and gave the IT team an equally complex project

• September 07, 2012 07 Sep'12

  UK cookie law compliance mixed, study finds

  Three months after the enforcement of the cookie law, only 12% of UK websites have prominent privacy notices and robust cookie controls, a study shows

• August 31, 2012 31 Aug'12

  UK partners pressure Adobe to keep Flash Player on Android store

  Adobe admits it has buckled under pressure from UK partners, such as the BBC, to keep Flash Player on the Google Play Store

• August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12

  GDS rolls out Drupal

  The Government Digital Service is rolling out open source content management system Drupal.

• August 21, 2012 21 Aug'12

  At least 9 out of 10 top mobile apps hacked, study shows

  An average of 96% of the top 100 paid mobile apps have been hacked, a study has revealed

• August 08, 2012 08 Aug'12

  Good data protection can be cheap and easy, says ICO

  The ICO says charities and third sector organisations stand to benefit most from a data protection check-up.

• August 07, 2012 07 Aug'12

  Smartphones drive Tesco's UK virtual supermarket

  Tesco has launched a smartphone-friendly virtual supermarket online shopping system at Gatwick airport.

• August 06, 2012 06 Aug'12

  LinkedIn data breach costs more than $1m

  LinkedIn says the forensic investigation and other recovery costs of the data breach in June could have topped $1m.

• August 01, 2012 01 Aug'12

  Microsoft to revamp and rename Hotmail

  Microsoft has announced it is revamping and renaming its free webmail service, which analysts say may be aimed at winning over users of Google's rival Gmail service

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  CW500: The technology behind the BBC's Olympics coverage

  BBC CTO John Linwood told Computer Weekly’s CW500 Club about the “terrifying” challenge of providing live coverage of all events at the Olympics

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  Twitter apologises for outage ahead of Olympics

  Twitter has apologised for the two-hour micro-blogging service outage on the day before the official opening of the London 2012 Olympics

• July 26, 2012 26 Jul'12

  SQL injection attacks rise sharply in second quarter of 2012

  SQL injection (SQLi) attacks were up 69% in the second quarter of 2012 compared with the previous quarter, warns cloud hosting firm FireHost

• July 10, 2012 10 Jul'12

  Retailers without multichannel risk losing business

  Retailers without a multichannel offering could start haemorrhaging cash as customers' expectations change, according to research

• June 25, 2012 25 Jun'12

  Web surfers keen to compromise own privacy, study finds

  Web users voluntarily compromise their own privacy by typing more personal information into online forms than is needed, a study has found

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  ICANN reveals bidders for top level domain names

  The internet organisation names the companies bidding for 1,930 new domains for websites